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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of the two Malefactors, that was Executed at Tyburn, on
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Saturday the 25th of May, 1723
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AT the Proceedings on the KING'S Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, &c. Held for London and Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, before the
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Right Honourable Sir GERARD CONYERS
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, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Lord Chief Justice Pratt, Mr. Justice Tracey, Mr. Baron Price,
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Sir William Thompson
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, Knight, Recorder, and several of his MAJESTY'S Justices of the Peace; which began on
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Wednesday, the 24th of April
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, in the 9th Year of His MAJESTY'S Reign; two Men and one Woman were found guilty of Capital Offences, and had Judgment pronounced upon them accordingly.
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DURING the time that three Persons found guilty of Capital Offences, (viz.
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Luke Nunny
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Richard Trantham
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Mary Chandler
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) lay under the Sentence pronounced upon them, the two Men never absented from Prayers as often as they had an Opportunity of hearing them in the Chappel; the Woman expressing her Sorrow that she was very frequently prevented from frequenting the Publick Prayers so much as she desir'd, by a severe Sickness that hung upon her, and render'd her incapable of doing her Duty to God when alone in the Place appointed for her, or attending to the Word of God when it was read and explain'd to her for a considerable time. But she acknowledg'd the Justice of Providence, in adding that Affliction to her other Miseries, because she had so long, and much neglected to perform in her Health and Strength, what then she wish'd she could perform with more Heart and Resolution. The Lad under Conviction, although he appear'd to those who took Notice of him, to be altogether supine and careless, and to have not the least Notion of the fad State and Condition he was reduc'd unto; yet as often as I talked to him of a future State, and of
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